• insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I could see it being a real thing. When you’re making a game it gives you visualization for animations (both physics and visual-only) and shaders (maybe even a simplified stylized version). Random benchmark results/debug info. Drawing attention to syntax mistakes. An important email or video call pops up.

    It would be cool and potentially useful, but completely un-asked for and likely distracting and a waste of space. Basically what if your computer was a non-cartoon clippy.

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      1 year ago

      Or you can just, you know, timeshare it by interleaving running the code time with making code time, thus having maximal screen size for both.

      (Source: I’m actually making a game right now … or should if I wasn’t making posts in Lemmy ;))